If it were not for the fact that he was a billionaire, she would never have married him.
如果不是因为他是个亿万富翁,她不会嫁给他。
The doctor told him that he would have died if it had not been for his little girl.
医生告诉他,如果没有他的小女儿,他已经死了。
Later,he said: "If it were not for the high office I held, I would have taken him by the seat of the pants and the nape of the neck and thrown him out the window."
VOA: special.2010.08.12
If I'm told "not so much for you," you'll suffer relative to him.
如果有人跟我说“你不怎么聪明”,你就会因为他而受到我冷落。
"One soldier had been fighting in the jungles for years. And I don't know if it had affected him or not, but when the clerk handed him a tweed suit to try on he spent three hours searching through the fuzz for snipers."
VOA: special.2009.03.09
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